Voa development report - Interest Grows in Training to Prepare for a Disaster

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. We talked week about Mercy Corps, a nonprofit group that provides services after disasters. Another organization involved in this kind work is Catholic Relief Services, based in Baltimore, Maryland. is the official international relief and development agency of United States Catholic community. It was started in nineteen -. Today it operates in ninety-eight countries. Catholic Relief Services a budget for this year of around six hundred dollars. CRS gets a lot of its money from United States government but also from individuals and other . The American Institute of Philanthropy rates it among the American groups for international relief and development work. CRS a rating of A-plus-. (Mercy Corps gets an A, a top rating.) Catholic Relief Services is a faith-based but says it employs and helps people of all . In addition to providing aid after disasters, CRS is people to prepare before a disaster strikes. It provides preparedness training around the world. Cassie Dummett is the adviser for South Asia. She tells us from New that some of the most successful programs are in of central and eastern India. She says the first is to help communities think about an emergency and how best to prepare. These include natural disasters that year after year, like seasonal floods, ocean storms, drought landslides. Committees are formed. An early warning committee, for , would listen to weather reports or watch river levels. committee would decide when people should move to safer . Another committee might be responsible for rescue efforts and assistance. A third committee might supervise food and water , or the movement of farm animals to safety. Other such as Oxfam and CARE also do emergency preparedness . Cassie Dummett says interest in this kind of humanitarian has grown in the last several years. She says organizations are starting to recognize the value of training to be prepared. And that's the VOA Special English Report, written by Jill Moss. You can learn more the work of international development groups by going to .. Click on the program link for our reports. Im Ember.

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